Social Action Collection
UUCville: Building Community Through Love In Action
Our monthly Social Action Collection uplifts the work of non-profit organizations whose mission and vision are aligned with our mission.
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to the May collection for Central Virginia Community Justice
See the 2025-26 UUCville Social Action Collection Recipients
See the 2024-2025 UUCville Social Action Collection Recipients
Get involved with our Social Action Collection beneficiaries: email socialjustice@uucharlottesville.org
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See how much money has been raised this fiscal year for each organization click here.
THE ORGANIZATIONS WE SUPPORT:
May Social Action Collection: Cville Immigrant Freedom Fund
The Cville Immigrant Freedom Fund (CIFF) is a non-profit organization that helps immigrant families pay for legal representation and ICE bond. CIFF also posts bond on behalf of those we support because if a detainee’s family member is not a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident, they are prohibited from...
VOTE May 16 on 2021-22 Social Action Collections
The 2021-2022 Social Action Collection applications are now finalized and ready for review. We have some amazing non-profits applying for our monthly collection, doing work you can believe in, and any congregational member can vote to choose who receives the monthly collection. UUC members will vote for next year’s recipients...
Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR): Social Action Collection Apr 18-May 17, 2021
Founded in 1998, the Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR)’s mission is to educate and empower low-income residents to protect and improve our own communities through collective action. We provide educational and leadership development opportunities for our residents, support for housing redevelopment, and community organizing events across the seven...
PACEM: Social Action Collection January 2021
A message from PACEM Executive Director, Jayson Whitehead: This time last year we were in the middle of our 16th PACEM shelter season. In many ways, it felt like any other season. We numbered almost 40 guys a night and nearly a dozen women. Every night, we offered a...
African American Teaching Fellows: Social Action Collection Mar 21-Apr 20 2021
African American Teaching Fellows works to support and develop current and prospective African American educators to serve local schools. Donate here from Mar 21-April 20. Our Fellows become invaluable role models and help prepare all young people to thrive in a diverse world. We support the education of African American...
2021-2022 Social Action Collection Applications Now Open
Each year the Social Justice Committee organizes the new year of Social Action Collections on the third Sunday of each month (most months.) If you know of a great non-profit in the area who does great work, who would (traditionally) receive a donation from our congregation of between $1500 and...
Blue Ridge Abortion Fund: Social Action Collection, February 2021
The Blue Ridge Abortion Fund and the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville share a powerful mutual commitment to ensuring people have the support they need to make decisions about their lives. Your commitment includes being at the source of this work in the 1990’s because of your belief in social justice...
Our Social Action Collections Have Been A Big Success!
2020 was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of our neighbors without jobs and struggling to provide food and shelter for their families. Over the past six months, Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville have contributed generously to six local non-profits whose social justice purposes are in...
Sin Barreras: Social Action Collection Dec. 2020
Donate to Sin Barreras here. Over seven years, Sin Barreras has become one of Central Virginia’s preeminent Hispanic non-governmental organizations. We have benefitted from the generosity of the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville for three years, and having this support come from concerned-citizen donors means as much to us as the actual...